Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 2 | I went to Grosvenor Square and abused ‘ American Imperialists ’ , I got thumped about a bit on Troops Out demos , and I dutifully handed out time and money in support of ‘ the miners ' wives ’ . |
| 3 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 4 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 5 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 6 | I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink . |
| 7 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 8 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 9 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 11 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 12 | I began to feel more a part of this vast foundation of the great Halton Experiment . |
| 13 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
| 14 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 15 | I started fishkeeping almost a year ago and I have a 3ft community tank , which is filtered by a Fluval 203 external filter . |
| 16 | They did yoga-based classes quite near me so I started going once a week . |
| 17 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 18 | I went to rinse out a towel in the hand basin . |
| 19 | Like you go , even saying I did serve quite a bit faster than her , which I do like , you know she still should o i if the bar done seven fifty she should have , she should have done what two , three and a half ? |
| 20 | Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend . |
| 21 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 22 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 24 | Recently I did take up a form of gardening , indoor gardening . |
| 25 | I only looked , I did take quickly a look at them but , you know I thought oh I ai n't got I did n't really have time to mess about for long you know . |
| 26 | I mean I got er the only th part erm I did mess up a bit was the the part here . |
| 27 | and er , I said what you mean Charlie , cor all dog 's mess all over the place , I said it is n't , I , I said have you ever been and he said no I , I said well there you are , I said if you have n't been I said you do n't know what it 's like , I said you 're talking about some old girl that lives on , in Little Sandhurst , who 's got a thing about dogs and I said kicking up a lot of fuss about it , but I said the women 's a dam liar |
| 28 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 29 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 30 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |